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Angel Armor Launches The RISE Uniform Carrier Featuring All-Day Rifle Protection

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

FORT COLLINS, CO. — August 12, 2019 — Angel Armor unveiled the RISE Uniform Carrier (R.U.C.) offering all-day rifle protection in a classic uniform appearance with color matching materials available in load-bearing or Class B configuration. Developed using Angel Armor’s QuadCore Attachment System — an innovative weight distribution technology — it is the most advanced external armor carrier available.

“R.U.C. stays true to the classic RISE DNA with all-day rifle protection,” says Josh Richardson, co-founder of Angel Armor. “Similar to RISE 2.0, R.U.C. uses premium materials and construction methods for years of service in the field while offering extensive features to help officers conduct daily tasks with ease while being comfortable and maintaining a professional appearance.”

The R.U.C. is custom fitted to each officer and is available in a variety of colors.

SPECS

? Durable 500 Denier CORDURA® nylon water repellent shell

? Premium moisture wicking, antimicrobial mesh lining for evaporative cooling and odor management

? RISE ballistic panel shoulder strap pass through to prevent armor from shifting and curling

? Fully adjustable sides using QuadCore Attachment System™ for superior vest securement and market-leading weight distribution

? Back to front adaptable locking belt cover using Fidlock® magnetic SNAPS with secondary Velcro® attachment for improved appearance and additional storage options with dual hidden utility pockets on select sizes

? Front and rear internal bottom loading rifle plate pockets suspended at shoulders with vertical adjustment accommodating multiple plate sizes

? Discreet internal YKK® zippers for easy panel and plate insertion

? Large hidden front pocket with ambidextrous YKK® zipper access

? Load-bearing option offers MOLLE compatible low profile laser cut PALS webbing at front, rear, and belt cover made of CENTURION™, an exceptionally durable and tear resistant color matching composite fabric from Honeywell™

For more information, visit Angelarmor.com.

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Qore Performance Pushes the Limits of Water Bottle Design with Newly Released IcePlate Curve

Monday, August 12th, 2019

McLean, VA: Qore Performance is at it again, releasing the much anticipated next generation of their popular IcePlate water bottle for sale today. “IcePlate Curve”, as the latest iteration is called, “furthers QPI’s mission to transform human performance, protecting and empowering end-users in the most hostile environments on earth,” according to QPI Co-Founder and CEO, Justin Li.

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IcePlate Curve maintains the power and storage specifications of the original IcePlate, such as an ultra-thin profile, powerful cooling (~70 watts) and warming capabilities, and 50 oz. (1.5 L) water storage capacity. New are several user-driven ergonomic and usability upgrades, incorporating the feedback from tens of thousands of end-users over the last 24 months. “We pride ourselves on designing for the end-user,” Li notes. “Every piece of user data pushes us to do better, to be better, and to continue to help our customers achieve physiological and psychological overmatch on the job.

IcePlate Curve design enhancements:

* Multi-Curve Geometry mimics and conforms to the Medium ESAPI armor plate. This first of its kind architecture provides an outstanding ergonomic fit for all body types, while providing greater surface area contact for cooling or warming.

* TotalDrain Technology with all-new Wide Fill Port facilitates accurate, rapid filling, no matter the water source. This port also serves as the drainage port, maximizing water storage and reliability while minimizing weight. Proprietary TotalDrain Technology recesses this single port at the lowest point of the bottle, making every drop drinkable, cleaning a breeze, and an effortless perfect fill every time.

* Q-Hex Baffle System provides enhanced structure during the freezing process, preserving IcePlate Curve’s unparalleled ergonomic geometry. When in the field, the Q-Hex Baffle System further reduces audible sound.

* IceCap allows IcePlate Curve to be stored with or without a hose for maximum storage efficiency. It features a universal Quick Disconnect interface that integrates seamlessly with most military and civilian drink hoses, allowing IcePlate Curve to go from freezer to field in seconds. A new, low-profile 90º elbow in black eliminates hose kink and is included with the standard drink hose.

* Side-Release Adjustable Armor Straps ensure IcePlate Curve can work with any plate carrier in the world between combat shirt and plate carrier. For users who want to run IcePlate Curve in their plate bag, the exact fit will depend on the specific plate carrier/armor combo.

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IcePlate Curve has game-changing implications for customers from a variety of military and industrial applications, and beyond. “Individual performance enhancement is revolutionizing industries from individual warfighters to airlines to QSR. There is a clear competitive advantage for every warfighter and company that adopts our technology,” Li explains.

IcePlate Curve is now shipping on QPI’s website in translucent Frost, with Coyote Brown and Wolf Grey pre-orders shipping in the next few weeks. Ranger Green will launch this fall.

www.qoreperformance.com/

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TSSi Hires Carlson as Director of Strategic Initiatives

Monday, August 12th, 2019

Harrisonburg, Virginia, August 9, 2019 – Bill Strang, President and CEO and Mark Good, Vice-President of Sales & Marketing of Tactical & Survival Specialties, Inc. (TSSi) announced the addition of Tom Carlson as the Director of Strategic Initiatives.

Carlson is a retired Soldier who served for 26 years, starting as an enlisted Infantryman in the 75th Ranger Regiment. He was then commissioned as an Army Aviator and served in a variety of conventional and special operations leadership, command and staff positions at tactical, operational, and strategic levels. After retiring from the Army, Carlson worked as a manager and business operations professional in the commercial airplane industry before returning to the defense industry in 2016. For the past three years, he gained an extensive and broad base of experiences working across the services in the Pacific Northwest, Western United States, and Pacific Rim.

TSSi is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that has been providing specialized operational equipment and logistics support around the world since 1980. Our mission is to provide mission-focused, time-sensitive, value-added equipment and logistics services solutions, delivered with uncompromising integrity – anytime, anywhere.

www.tssi-ops.com

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4th Annual Live Free or Die Shoot

Sunday, August 11th, 2019

Freedom Hill Gear and Inforce are very excited to announce the 4th Annual Live Free or Die Shoot! The focus of the event is on safety, education, and community.

The event will be held at Cheshire County Fish and Game (CCF&G) in Keene, NH on Saturday September 14, 2019 from 8:30AM-4:30PM. All tickets will include the limited edition Warrior Culture Gear Live Free or Die Shoot 2019 Shirt, Patch, and as always the Kickass BBQ by CC&D’s!

The CCF&G facility is a growing facility allowing many shooting events, participants, and vendors to participate in events such as the Live Free or Die Shoot. Gates and onsite registration open at 8:30am and a mandatory safety brief will be held at 9am. A cease-fire will be called from 12PM-1PM for lunch and demonstrations. Lunch and drinks will be provided for all attendees. The event will wind down at 4:30PM with giveaways at that time.

The Live Free or Die Shoot includes training by (Rob Pincus, Tatiana Whitlock, Mark Palazio, and Chris Sullivan). There will be many Industry Manufacturers and Vendors with special trainings & exclusive discounts at this event. Of the many Manufacturers there, Parker Mountain Machine will be running the Machine-Gun Shoot, Atomic Ammunition will be sponsoring the 2-Gun Course, and at the end of the event there will be many giveaways & raffle prizes you don’t want to miss!

Space is limited as registered attendees will be capped at 200 participants max. Early registration is encouraged. For more information and online registration available at www.freedomhillgear.com.

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Survival Equipment Pioneer Celebrates 40th Birthday

Friday, August 9th, 2019

Andrew Howell, the Managing Director of protective and survival equipment specialists, BCB International Ltd, celebrated with his family and BCB personnel his 40 years at the helm of the business.

Its equipment currently supports the British military as well as a number of foreign ministries of defence. It has been used in the Falklands, Mali and Afghanistan, among other places. The company, which stemmed from one man’s cough syrup has grown to now have over 70 employees across three sites in Wales.

BCB was originally founded in 1854 during the Crimean war, when Dr Brown supplied the troops with Brown’s Cough Bottle (BCB). The company was then taken over by a local chemist, Deryck Howell, in 1949. Forty years ago, his son, the current director of the company, decided to embark on international waters and set up BCB International Ltd.

“I set it up to design a new life raft first aid kit for Avon Inflatables in Llanelli. I thought it would take me 2 weeks; then I was going to go exploring the world,” tells Andrew Howell. “I am still to an extent redesigning the kit – and seeing the world,” he continues. The energetic Managing Director shows no sign of slowing down. Meeting with international clients, Andrew Howell regularly travel all around the world – in the past month alone, Andrew Howell and some of his team have travelled to the Netherlands, Germany, Brunei, French Guiana and Iraq in addition to meeting with prominent political and business figures in the UK.

Andrew Howell’s belief in continuous innovation has led to the development of products such as an eco-friendly biofuel FireDragon, a first of its kind worldwide, a self- inflating body armour system or a non-lethal boat stopping system to aid in peace and security-keeping in marine environments.

Having recently moved to larger Headquarters, under Andrew Howell’s leadership, the company is extremely well positioned to serve its clients.

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SAIC and Polaris Team On Army Infantry Squad Vehicle

Friday, August 9th, 2019

RESTON, Va., August 8, 2019 — Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Polaris Government and Defense, a division of Polaris Inc., (NYSE: PII) announced today they are teaming up for the U.S. Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) vehicle program. SAIC, a leading technology integrator, joined with Polaris, the industry leader in ultralight mobility platforms, to offer the proven DAGOR vehicle. DAGOR provides the warfighter superior operational capability, crew area, mobility and maneuverability in a tactical environment.

“SAIC has a long history of performing vehicle engineering and platform integration work, and the Army has a need for small-unit mobility and maneuverability that can be easily met with the proven DAGOR vehicle that has been deployed around the world,” said Jim Scanlon, executive vice president and general manager of SAIC’s Defense Systems Group. “Working with Polaris, SAIC will provide comprehensive systems engineering and integration using state-of-the-art tools and processes that leverage domain understanding gained through extensive field support and advanced experimentation in support of the Army to give the ISV a technological edge on the battlefields of tomorrow.”

“The DAGOR was designed to meet a squad’s payload and off-road mobility demands, while meeting weight and size restrictions that maximize air transportability,” said Jed Leonard, vice president, Polaris Government and Defense. “The lightweight and highly mobile platform supports the Army’s expeditionary missions providing a key capability needed on the ever-changing battlefield.”

The SAIC-Polaris team has delivered a baseline vehicle sample to soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division for soldier assessment. The DAGOR vehicle can carry up to nine soldiers with their equipment and supplies. It provides the speed, mobility and communications support Army small units require to obtain and maintain situational awareness of the battlefield.

SAIC’s expertise in C4ISR integration onto ground vehicles could provide additional capabilities such as cybersecurity, enhanced surveillance, secure communications, and non-kinetic fires. The DAGOR ISV will leverage and further enhance the already proven, production-ready solution that has been tested, certified, and fielded to operational units in the U.S. Military and its Allies since 2015.

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Panteao Launches New Series of Hunting Instructional Videos Make Ready for Africa with Geoffrey Wayland

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Columbia, SC, August 6, 2019 – Panteao Productions is happy to announce the release of Make Ready for Africa, with Geoffrey Wayland. This is the first video in a new series of instructional titles that will focus on hunting and hunter education. We’ve all seen the hunting videos that show a hunt but give little information with regard to how to prepare for the hunt or to understand the game being hunted.

In this first video, Panteao has teamed with African professional hunter Geoffrey Wayland of Fort Richmond Safaris. Raised on a remote farm in the Northern Cape of South Africa – a farm that’s been in his family since 1867 – Geoffrey started hunting when he was seven years old. When his father passed, Geoffrey took over the family outfitting service – Fort Richmond Safaris – and has been working as a professional hunter and outfitting safaris for plains and dangerous game all over Africa for more than a dozen years.

Along with Geoffrey, gun writers Richard Mann and Ron Spomer, and Carlos Martinez from the Remington Outdoor Company Custom Center, give their valuable insight — based on more than a century of field experience — to help you make ready for Africa. Topics include selecting an outfitter, travel, firearms permitting, rifle and cartridge selection for plains and dangerous game, optics, clothing, field prep, payment and gratuity, taxidermy, expectations, and much, much, more. Before you head to the Dark Continent on your first, or even next safari, you should watch this video.

Panteao greatly appreciates the support of the sponsors that help make this video happen: Dakota Arms, Remington Custom Shop, Marlin Custom, Meopta, Merkel, Jagdhund, SKB Cases, Hunters HD Gold, Surefire, Versacarry, Work Sharp, Spyderco, African Odyssey, and African San Taxidermy Studio.

Make Ready for Africa Sponsors:

Make Ready for Africa is now available streaming for Panteao subscribers. It can be watched online via a PC or Mac, on a smartphone or tablet using the Panteao Make Ready Android and iTunes apps, or on television with the Panteao Make Ready channel on Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV. For more information on how to stream the Panteao videos, visit: panteao.com/streaming-video-ways-to-watch

The video will also be available later this month on DVD and Digital Download formats. For more information on this title, visit Panteao at: panteao.com/product/make-ready-for-africa

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DroneShield Releases RfZero Product

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Sydney, Australia – 2 August 2019 – DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO or DRO.AU) (“DroneShield”) is pleased to release a breakthrough new product, RfZeroTM, following extensive development in response to end-user feedback. The product is available for purchase from today to qualified end-users.

RfZeroTM is an omnidirectional drone detection device with a 1km range. It is designed to be a cost-effective fixed site alternative to DroneShield’s higher end product, RfOneTM (a 5km radiofrequency direction finder). As such, RfZeroTM responds to the needs of users with more substantial budgetary constraints. As is the case with the rest of DroneShield’s fixed site product family, RfZeroTM uses DroneShieldCompleteTM, DroneShield’s proprietary counterdrone software user interface. It is also able to integrate with the rest of the fixed site DroneShield product suite, such as DroneCannonTM for either automated or manual drone defeat, once RfZeroTM detects the drone.

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RfZeroTM is completely non-emitting, thus allowing for a substantially larger customer universe. Given that the product thus lacks this regulatory constraint, and is marketed at a lower price point, the product is expected to be of a substantial appeal to a wide array of customers.

Image: DroneShieldCompleteTM user interface and analytics capability

DroneShield’s CEO Oleg Vornik commented, “RfZeroTM is expected to appeal to a wide range of users looking for a more cost effective fixed site solution, complementing our RfOneTM high performance product. Typical target customers for RfZeroTM include prisons, VIPs, commercial sites, mining industry, events, and qualified corporate users, while airport and military customers generally find RfOneTM to be the more suitable offering. Following the recent releases of the pistol-shaped drone mitigation device DroneGun MKIIITM and the body-worn RfPatrolTM detection device, DroneShield is pleased to have the most extensive product offering on the market, developed based on the extensive customer feedback we received to date”.

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